No one could have imagined that the first home game in the history of the NHL expansion team would be defined by such a mournful cause, but as it has so many times in the worst of moments, sports proved to be a powerful remedy.
Shootings
In a statement released late Tuesday, MGM Resorts International disputed Sheriff Joe Lombardo’s revised timeline of the Oct. 1 mass shooting on the Strip.
Despite Mandalay Bay shooter Stephen Paddock’s well-documented gambling history, he had no known gambling debts, Sheriff Joe Lombardo said in an extensive interview Tuesday with the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
In the eight days since concertgoers were shot at from Mandalay Bay’s 32nd floor, United Blood Services, part of a nationwide network of blood centers in 28 states, received 3,404 local donations. Fifty-one percent were from first-time donors.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority began planning its revised marketing message to the world — a message of concern for victims and first-responders — a minute after the shooting from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay resort stopped on Oct. 1.
Sheriff Joe Lombardo said Tuesday two large jet fuel tanks near Mandalay Bay “need another layer of protection” in the wake of the deadly mass shooting outside the Strip resort on Oct. 1.
A Las Vegas security guard who was shot trying to help people escape the mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest Festival will be laid to rest this week.
Over $10.6 million has raised so far to help pay for Arjune’s expenses, as well as those of the 488 others who were injured and 58 who died during the Oct. 1 shooting.
In the last two days, about 160 people had been reunited with their phones, cowboy hats, wallets and other miscellaneous items at the Family Assistance Center set up at the Las Vegas Convention Center, officials say.
After Sunday’s shooting on the Strip, up to 200 school psychologists, nurses, counselors and social workers responded to a request for assistance from local authorities. For some, the experience was “very raw … very emotional.”
Star DJs Tiesto, Kaskade, Steve Aoki and more will team up Nov. 7 at Omnia in Caesars Palace for a concert to benefit victims of the Oct. 1 shooting at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival.
Masjid Ibrahim Islamic Center welcomed people of all faiths and backgrounds Monday night. Before their last prayer, they remembered victims of the Oct. 1 attack at the Route 91 Harvest festival that killed 58 people and injured nearly 500.
Nick Robone, the 28-year-old assistant UNLV hockey coach who was hit in the chest by a bullet shot by Stephen Paddock, knows that when the Route 91 Harvest festival was turned into a shooting gallery, he was lucky.
It was about 10:08 p.m. on Oct. 1 when Las Vegas police officer Brady Cook caught a bullet below his right shoulder.
Samanta Arjune, 46, faces painful rehabilitation and still hears sometimes hears rifle shots as she recovers from a serious leg wound suffered during the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting, but she knows she’s “lucky.”
